“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” (James 4:13-14)
I just returned from a great week of vacation with my family in Wisconsin. We stayed on a lake. During a number of the mornings mist would rise from it. The mist did not last long as the warm sun burned it away. It reminded me of these verses in the book of James.
Our life is not our own, it is in God’s hands. He gives life and He takes it away. Moses knew this when he wrote Psalm 90, the oldest psalm in the Psalter.“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom”(Psalm 90:12).
May we be wise to live our lives to the fullest for the glory of God—Maximizing the Mist!
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